A post on Slickdeals.net describes how to get a $20 credit from EA's Origin service that can be used to make a $19.99 purchase essentially free. Apparently the credit is offered for the completion of a simple survey. Thanks Siliconera.

{PH}88fingers wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 21:02:After putting in the code and getting the price to $0, they ask you to provide billing address, then after clicking submit get the following error: Payment Authorization Failed

considering its zero and there is no area to provide CC info I am lost as to my next move!guess no Saboteur for me =(

If discounting prices by 75% cheapens your IP (which it does according the geniuses at EA) then what does a 100% discount do to it?

About the only game I'd be slightly interested in that I don't already own would be Syndicate, and I'm not seeing that on the list. EDIT: Never mind - they are still asking 60 frickin' bucks for Syndicate. Are they high?

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Dev wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 18:02:from SD, the list of games this has been confirmed on:

The only thing on there even worth anything to me is Burnout Paradise, and I was going to get it until I saw online advertising... ugh.

Anyone play Burnout Paradise?

Creston

I've played it extensively... fantastic game. The online advertising stuff is pretty minimal (just a handful of billboards that get updated - most of them are static). Bigger question is how you feel about an open-world racing game.

I like it, but I'm actually more interested in the next NFS. I got Saboteur instead. Thanks for the reply though

Dev wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 18:02:from SD, the list of games this has been confirmed on:

The only thing on there even worth anything to me is Burnout Paradise, and I was going to get it until I saw online advertising... ugh.

Anyone play Burnout Paradise?

Creston

I've played it extensively... fantastic game. The online advertising stuff is pretty minimal (just a handful of billboards that get updated - most of them are static). Bigger question is how you feel about an open-world racing game.

I looked at the the origin store on a lark to see how far its come. What a piece of amateur hour shit, that is one awful site from a billion dollar corporation. Clumsy to navigate with static item lists, shows a bunch of category headers but you can only sort by a few of them and its cluttered up with individual DLC items like UO Character Code Transfer $19.99. Charging $20 for DLC items in old ass MMO games and things like Mass Effect is the icing on the turd cake. These clowns will never compete with Steam which isn't exactly a shining example of user interface design itself.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 17:26:For free digital copies? Somebody somewhere is getting a promotion, if not a few turns at the blowjob machine as well. For the cost of bandwidth they are getting potentially millions of people to get suckered in to Origin. Now those people might never use Origin again, but of course they MIGHT go back and buy some games in the future...

This is a classic marketing strategy. The only free games are arguably the poor performing games, etc.

*EDIT* Typo.

Yeah but that's believing that EA has someone who can see "classic marketing strategy" instead of "OMG WE LOST MONIES!!!eleventyone!"

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